chihiro · morningstar

220 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 9 more places -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CHIHIRO · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 40, 44, 46 and 36 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 17 sections: 64 keep time, 42 are fills, 87 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART C
PART M
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AV
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesABMAVCB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is chihiro?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is chihiro hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in chihiro?

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 40, 44, 46 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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